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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not surprised that dumbass doesn't even understand what POV means.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Honestly there are so many memes I've seen that say "POV" but clearly aren't from the POV of the subject and I still don't understand what the deal with this is

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 2 months ago

POV memes peaked with this

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The result of the term getting popular and a large number of idiots not understanding what it means and still continue to use it incorrectly.

The definition of weeb originally meaning someone who rejects their own culture in an attempt to be more Japanese and becoming a term used to describe anyone who watches a lot of anime is an example of this.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The meaning of "weeb" changing is fine. It is not something any reasonable person should be upset by.

The meaning of "POV" changing among some people is at the end of the day probably also fine, the only difference is that I don't get it. Like, you arrive from the original to the present meaning of "weeb" through hyperbole, and the result is a new usage which fills in some gaps and doesn't leave any gaps behind.

POV in its new usage serves a social function, it's used as a discourse marker, but the path from meaning A to meaning B feels a lot less clear, and this is what bothers me.

In any case I don't think it's right to make all this talk of "idiots" and "incorrect". That's just a flat-out bad and reactionary way to think about language change.

Edit: Hell, to what extent was it even people misinterpreting the original meaning, as opposed to reinterpreting the meaning more deliberately? For instance if someone sees that TikTok videos with the word "POV" tend to get more views, I could see that person bending the meaning a little, and thinking that if anyone complains, that's still engagement. That's maybe a bit more troubling but it's also a better explanation than just "people are dumb" -- "people are dumb" is just incurious misanthropy, it acts like changes in meaning caused by misinterpretations are entirely arbitrary and unworthy of any further analysis or discussion.

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

This is almost becoming my pet project, but I think a lot of it can be attributed to a sort of fundamental irrationality in "the algorithm" that is self-reinforcing. Especially since this trend came from Tik Tok, which has refined its algorithm to a T.

Like at some point an algorithm saw that people stayed .05 seconds longer on Tik Toks with "POV" in the title, and they started pushing those videos to peoples pages. And then some people saw that videos with POV in the title get 20% more views and start putting POV in all their titles no matter the relevance, and the algorithm picks that up, etc etc.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] edge@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Don't give him that much credit. He stole a meme (as usual) and was too stupid to realize it used the "wrong" name.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not convincing anyone that he's mature enough to handle those billions

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I regret to inform you that this is unfortunately pretty standard CEO behavior. Most just don't make it this public.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Calling Twitter Twitter instead of X

Another self-own

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Petulant adult child

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

omg Brazil you just did a friggin CHYNA censoring the internet, you're going to lose subscriber smuglord my-hero

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I think they did a poll and found that like 98% of people call it Twitter still lmao

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

all you need to know is how many times twitter.com has redirected to x

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

The other 2% is people saying it ironically on my silly podcasts

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

posting old memes on twitter, visionary CEO activities on display, the digital god is just around the corner as usual

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

"I'm not mad im not mad please don't let anyone say that im mad because I'm not." - Elon

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

How many will actually go through the effort to read that shit hole? At least torrent sites you get some movie or game. How many people gonna get a vpn to read what groyper88 has to say about jews or black people on a stormfront wannabe site? cat-confused